How do you solve a problem like Rapunzel? Cinematically, at least, she’s one of the most neglected of the Grimm brothers’ fairy-tale heroines; Disney-wise she’s been positively snubbed. The story had great optics but not a lot of action, I suppose, though as a child who walked around in towel-fashioned headdresses to simulate the long hair my mother wouldn’t let me have, Rapunzel’s was the story I longed to thrill to on the big screen.
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REVIEW: Advances in Fairy-Tale Technology Finally Bring Rapunzel to Big Screen in Tangled
